Klarinet Archive - Posting 000344.txt from 2002/11

From: Nick Simicich <njs@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Blocking myself
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:20:06 -0500

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At 04:16 PM 2002-11-06 -0800, David Naden wrote:

>Jeremy--
>
>Rebecca is in high school. I don't think she would have a UNIX box.

Half the people on the local Linux list seem to be in high school, or just
out. You can get Linux on a computer from Walmart. For that matter, if
you have a new Mac, underneath it all is Unix. And even if you have a
Windows box (including XP), you can install cgiwin, and get X Windows, a C
compiler and most typical Unix command line utilities, including a Unix
command line (bash or zsh) and, well, procmail, fetchmail, as well as
things like ssh and friends. (I had to send a packet to a UDP port the
other day to test something, and I was about to look for netcat on NT on
the web when I realized that I had bash, so "echo foo > /dev/udp/host/port"
worked.)

As to whether you can suppress the messages sent back to you, well, I've
never liked exmlm because it takes a simple reply with no command as a
confirmation so that you can subscribe an autoresponder to a mailing list.

With all modern, reasonable mailing list managers, the function of
suppressing the echos of the mail that you send is a command that you can
send to the mailing list manager, and it will remember this. It is just
another state, like, "please send me the mime format digest" or "please
send me the text format digest", or "Please (don't) send me any posts for a
couple weeks, I am going on vacation, start me up automatically when I get
back". These are all things that more complete MLMs will do.

Listserv will suppress your own posts from coming back to you, majordomo2
will do this, etc. I do not think that your request for the command or
setting that suppresses your own posts was anything you should not
reasonably expect from a mailing list manager. If ezmlm will do this I
can't find it in the doc (either sent in response to the help command or
from web sites that maintain ezmlm FAQs.

--
If you doubt that magnet therapy works, I put to you this observation: When
refrigerators were first invented, in the 1940s, they were rather
unreliable, but then they became significantly more reliable. The basic
design of the refrigerator did not change, and we all know that quality was
important back then, so I doubt that newer refrigerators are made better.
Refrigerators have become more reliable because of the rise of the
refrigerator magnet.
Nick Simicich - njs@-----.com

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